Scottish Film makers have a unique opportunity this month to learn from Richard Jobson, writer and director of Sixteen Years of Alcohol or The Purifiers, as he offers two masterclasses. One script masterclass which focuses on thrillers, and the other is a digital masterclass looking at all aspects of low budget digital film making.

Here are more details of the sessions:

CLASS I: Script Masterclass: Shoot to Kill: Plotting a Thriller. Making a genre film that might find an audience. Why the thriller is still the most exciting Genre. A day where we will examine Anticipation. Anxiety. Fear. Sensuality. Characters born into the danger of a noir world. We will be looking at the history of The Thriller Where has it gone recently? Where can it go? What future for the thriller? How can we re-invent it?

CLASS 2: Digital Masterclass: How to get a film made: Production. Screenwriting. Post Production. How to unravel the nightmare. The class will cover a wide range of themes such as: Creating individual stories and characters. Dissecting themes and ideas; Analysing style and language: Working on the principle that you will turn your script into a film Jobson will guide the writer through the pitfalls and joys of low budget digital film making.

It's a unique opportunity and will be a mere £250 + VAT per day running on the 22nd and 23rd of February. For more details and to sign up, visit Richard Jobson's site.

You can also see the trailer [Embed:Flash] for his last film A Woman in Winter, which was a low budget digital film shot on a very limited budget and looking very worthwhile.